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C Wess Daniels
Wess is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. He is a recorded Quaker minister engaged in renewal, resisting empire, and liberation theology.
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Write the Vision: Quakers, Zines and Participatory Culture
This is a synchroblog written for Quaker Voluntary Service, of which I am a board member. The theme is “Quakers and new media.” (Twitter Link #qvssynchroblog) “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets,
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A Hidden Wholeness Chapter 2 – Sketchnotes
Over the next ten weeks or so we at Camas Friends Church are working through Parker Palmer’s book, “A Hidden Wholeness: A Journey Toward an Undivided Life.” I will continue to post our
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Sketchnotes from Palmer’s “A Hidden Wholeness” Chapter 1
We are reading through Quaker author Parker Palmer’s wonderful book, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life. As a part of my preparation for leading the group I am making sketchnotes
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Finding Healing After a Suicide
I wrote an article last summer about some of the healing process I have been working on in relation to my step-dad’s suicide. Friends Journal picked up the article, redid a little
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A Convergent Model of Hope is Ready To Share
I finished my dissertation, “A Convergent Model of Hope: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture,” last November. But it is
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Like Seeds Being Poured Out (Matthew 28:16-20)
“Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All
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Hope on a Tightrope Sermon #Sketchnotes
Each week as I study, I take a lot of notes. Some of those notes I type into Evernote on my computer, and some of them I sketch out. The stuff that really stands
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Resurrection: Hope on a Tightrope (Matthew 28:1-10)
“After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.” (Matthew 28:1) A Little Hope I don’t know about
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Cornel West – Hope on a Tightrope
“The vocation of the intellectual is to turn easy answers into critical questions and to put those critical questions to people with power.” “The quest for truth, the quest for the good, the quest
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Palm Sunday: Rivalry Encased in Death (Matthew 26:20-27:26)
“So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’
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Death By Bread & Clothes Alone (Matthew 6:25-34)
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and
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On God & Money: Who and What is in Service to Whom? (Matthew 6)
“No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
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My AFSC Message is Online
I was given the wonderful opportunity to speak at the American Friends Service Committee’s Corporate Gathering this past Saturday on the
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Whose Desire is Going to Run Us? Matthew 6:1-18
We All Desire Another’s Desire Like many kids growing up, I worked hard to gain the approval of my parents, teachers, friends and pastors. One year in college when I ran for class
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On the Harm We Have Done
Here is a prayer from Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) that seems as timely as ever, and one we ought to be praying regularly, especially given the state of the church and its too often